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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hackney 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Regulation 27 (Covering of Stalls)
Failure to screen stall at sides and back 1
Regulation 28 (Supply of water for stalls)
Absence of clean and wholesome supply of hot water 1
Failure to provide suitable and sufficient sinks 1
Absence of soap or detergent nail brushes, towels 2
Notices served under these regulations related to defects at 57 premises
as follows:-
Bakers 8
Basement Bakehouses 2
Beer Bottlers 1
Butchers 4
Cafes and Restaurants 13
Canteens 5
Confectioners 3
Fish Fryers 2
Food Storage Premises 2
Greengrocers 2
Grocers and Provision Merchants 7
Public Houses 5
Stalls 3
Legal Proceedings under the Food Hygiene Regulations
| Fines | Costs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Cafe | £ | s. | d | £ | So | d |
| Failure to provide suitable and sufficient wash hand basins | Withdrawn without costs | |||||
| (2) Grocery | ||||||
| Allowing refuse to accumulate in a food room | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | |
| Carrying on a food business in insanitary conditions | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Failure to keep food rooms in good order, repair and condition | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Failure to keep a sanitary convenience in a clean and fit order | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Failure to maintain suitable and sufficient lighting in the sanitary convenience .. | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | |
| Failure to keep in good order and repair food rooms | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Allowing refuse to accumulate in food rooms | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
| Carrying on a food business in insanitary conditions | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
SECTION 16 (Re gist rat ion of premises manufacture and sale of ice cream and
of sausages, etc.). This section provides that no premises shall be used for
the sale, or the manufacture for the purpose of sale, of ice cream or the
storage of ice cream intended for sale, or the preparation or manufacture of
sausages or potted pressed pickled or preserved food intended for sale unless
they are registered under this section for that purpose by the local authority.
ICE CREAM New applications to the number of thirteen for the sale of ice
cream were approved. At the end of the year the premises of 442 retailers
and nine manufacturers were registered. The 81 samples of ice cream submitted
to the Public Health Laboratory Service for Methylene Blue Test were reported
on as follows:-
Grade 1 67
Grade 2 5
Grade 3 5
Grade 4 4
PREPARATION OR MANUFACTURE OF SAUSAGES OR POTTED PRESSED PICKLED OR
PRESERVED FOOD INTENDED FOR SALE There were two new applications- one
for fish frying and the other for the preservation of meat ie. the cook
ing of chickens.
At the end of the year the following 158 premises were
registered